1544 Cypress Avenue

  • 3

    Beds

  • 2.5

    Baths

  • 2,180 sq ft

    Home Size

  • 5,940 sq ft

    Lot Size

Sold

$3,105,000

Overview

Picture-Perfect with Timeless Architecture

Enjoy a piece of Burlingame’s past at this special offering filled with history and romance dating back to 1916 – a time when San Francisco’s elite used homes such as this for summer residences. The home’s proud heritage is a stellar example of the early Arts and Crafts movement introduced by its shingled exterior and classic covered front porch. Inside, original details recall the fine workmanship of the era – rich wood millwork and wainscot, fine hardwood floors, glass doorknobs, and period lighting. Numerous updates add luxurious amenities to the remodeled chef’s kitchen and baths. Behind the scenes, tech features have also been added, such as the Ring video front doorbell, Nest thermostat, and wiring for EV charging.

Nowhere is the architectural character more evident than in the impressive foyer and distinguished formal rooms that present the kind of elegance only time can bestow. Built-in cabinetry with leaded-glass fronts in both the living room and dining room are as beautiful as they are functional. The kitchen has been reimagined with period style finished with Carrara marble and quality stainless steel appliances. Added living space can be found on the basement level where a spacious fully finished room offers flexibility for play or fitness needs. Personal accommodations comprise 3 bedrooms, including a luxurious master suite, plus there is a customized office for work-at-home needs.

  • Built in

    1916

  • Listed

    4 years ago

  • Neighborhood

  • Schools

    Washington Elementary, Burlingame Middle School, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)


Amenities

  • Circa 1916 Arts and Crafts home with period details and remodeled luxury

  • 3 bedrooms, office, and 2.5 baths

  • Approximately 2,180 square feet of living space (per paid vendor)

  • Picture-perfect curb appeal on a corner lot with manicured lawn and gardens framed by a classic white fence; a wide walkway steps up to the covered front porch with arched side opening

  • Front door with true divided light beveled-edge glass opens to a spacious central foyer where oak floors begin and extend throughout

  • Pocket doors with beveled-edge glass open to the formal living room; extra-deep ceiling moldings in hardwood match the wainscot paneling, window millwork, and built-in cabinetry with leaded-glass fronts flanking the fireplace; a period-style chandelier and matching sconces illuminate the room

  • Large formal dining room, also with beveled-edge glass pocket doors, duplicates the living room’s crown moldings and wainscot paneling; a full wall of built-in cabinetry with integrated windows includes leaded-glass fronts and a serving counter

  • Fully customized office has extensive built-ins including a workstation, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, plus a storage closet; plantation shutters finish two large windows

  • Remodeled kitchen in keeping with the period features beadboard wainscot, Shaker-style white cabinetry, and Carrara marble counters; a separate counter with butcher-block top provides seating at each end; a French door opens to the rear deck, and a pocket door conceals the entrance to the finished basement

  • Stainless-steel appliances include a Thermador gas range, GE microwave, Bosch dishwasher, and Sub-Zero refrigerator

  • Finished basement, with custom carpet and transom windows, perfect for play or fitness needs

  • French door with opaque seeded-glass panes opens to the master bedroom suite, which has drop crown moldings, ceiling pendant light, and closet with inlaid mirrored door; the remodeled en suite bath has a Carrara marble vanity, skylight, private commode area, and tub with overhead shower surrounded in Calacatta-style marble tile

  • Two additional bedrooms, each with drop crown moldings, ample closet space, and direct access to a remodeled bath with Carrara marble vanity and separate room with tub and overhead shower surrounded in subway-set white tile

  • Other features include: sky-lit powder room; skylights in the hallway; Ring video front doorbell; Nest thermostat; detached 1-car garage plus off-street paver stone parking space with wiring for EV charging

  • Large rear deck and lawn, all fenced in a very private setting

  • Lot size of approximately 5,940 square feet

  • Burlingame Park neighborhood just down the street from Pershing Park with playground and only 4 blocks from Burlingame Avenue

  • Burlingame schools: Washington Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High (buyer to verify enrollment)


Burlingame

Burlingame Park

Despite some predictably negative numbers (average and median home values down 6% and 7%, respectively), Burlingame Park outperformed many of its neighbors in 2022. Average price per square foot increased 16%, to $1,580, and total sales fell only by one, to 17, after increasing by 42% in 2020 to 2021. What may be more notable for this market’s future is how its range of sold properties changed from 2021 to 2022. Over half of Burlingame Park sales closed escrow for more than $4 million in 2021, whereas this year only five of 17 sales reached that level. Of those five, though, four were for $5 million-plus, led by a $6.5 million sale that closed escrow in late September, several months into 2022’s changed market.

To view a detailed google map of the Burlingame Park neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 460.

Favorable

  • The closest walkable neighborhood to downtown

  • Large, historic homes

  • Tree-lined streets

  • One of the two neighborhoods (along with Easton Addition) where you're likely to find new home


Adverse

  • Homes rarely come on the market here...typically around 1 a month


Explore Burlingame Park

Burlingame is one of the few areas that has maintained its gracious charm and timeless elegance over the decades. A favorite among families, Burlingame’s two main shopping areas, Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, attract a wide variety of shoppers discovering its boutiques, restaurants, dessert places, and clothing stores. Home to fresh farmer’s markets every Sunday morning in the summer and fall, jazz concerts in Washington Park, and a yearly Art in the Park fair, Burlingame is a wonderful place to start a family or retire later in life, and is well equipped for both!

Its tree lined streets offer an abundance of architecture and style of homes, from quaint two bedroom bungalows to thoughtfully designed four and five bedrooms.

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Timeless elegance
Renowned small town, community feel
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Top schools
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Tree lined streets
Burlingame is well known for it’s beautiful trees: each of its 15,000 trees is visited at least once every five years for care, and Burlingame has been a Tree City USA for over 30 consecutive years.
Explore Burlingame

If you’re looking to buy a home in Burlingame in a particular public elementary school district, this unique google map will help you identify the geographic boundaries for enrollment of each school. This map was assembled from data from the school district website (handy for quickly identifying what school a particular address is assigned to), and is reliable but not guaranteed.

If you have more specific questions about schools in Burlingame, please contact Raziel. To verify enrollment in the event it is impacted, contact the Burlingame School District.

All addresses in Burlingame go to Burlingame High School (In 2003, the district lines were redrawn to incorporate this change). Burlingame High is within the San Mateo Union High School District (not the Burlingame School District, which includes all five public elementary schools and BIS). To verify enrollment information, please contact the High School District.

Burlingame shares a common history with neighbors San Mateo, Millbrae and Hillsborough, but only up to a point. Like the surrounding communities, Burlingame was once the site of native Costanoan villages and then part of a Mexican land grant (Rancho Buri Buri to the north and Rancho San Mateo to the south). Burlingame’s history diverges from that of nearby Peninsula cities in the late 1800s, when Francis Newlands, son-in-law of landowner and Nevada Senator William Sharon, came up with a plan to turn this stretch of real estate into a playground for San Francisco’s wealthiest residents.

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